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by jpfed 9y ago
As a parent with a terrible episodic memory, having more convenient ways of augmenting my memory would be a huge plus.
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by jpfed 9y ago
>I can't even remember last week's scandals. https://twitter.com/aScaramucciAgo has got you covered.
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by jpfed 9y ago
But note that in this study the beta wave activity turned on and off in task-sensitive ways. It may not be useful to have some stimulus that increases or decreases beta wave amplitude in ways that are not sensitive to exactly what your brai
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by jpfed 9y ago
By me? As far as I know it's the most powerful object in any Seuss book and it derives that power from something so small it's invisible. It's where my thoughts immediately went on first reading.
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by jpfed 9y ago
>If you’re a programmer, you might think that the fiddliness of programming is a special feature of programming, but really it’s that everything is fiddly, but you only notice the fiddliness when you’re new, and in programming you do new
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by jpfed 9y ago
I wonder whether it would be possible to look at dependencies the way McCabe looked at flow control. http://www.literateprogramming.com/mccabe.pdf That is, we use a strategy for substituting away subgraphs; we can classify
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by jpfed 9y ago
>Cell phones and the internet are huge, but that didn't come until the very tail end. When change is exponential, most of the change in general doesn't come until the very end.
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by jpfed 9y ago
>(my karma will likely not survive this) the title should probably read "Mastadon makes the Internet feel like an safe echo chamber again." This is a very well represented viewpoint on HackerNews. Your karma has nothing to fea
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by jpfed 9y ago
The first isn't a self-contradiction; it just places the speaker in the first camp.
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(One incredibly minor detail that emerged during the Scalise shooting incident is that Congressional Democrats and Republicans play baseball together... but each party gets its own team . A better way to overcome division would have been t
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by jpfed 9y ago
Maybe planar colors make for better-looking images (a more cohesive feel) and the demo images were chosen because they look good.
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by jpfed 9y ago
This is cool, but isn't it more like refinement types?
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by jpfed 9y ago
One can imagine workflows that combine some of these solutions. Imagine pre-registering experiments and analyses... and then fellow scientists privately weigh in with their predictions for the results. These predictions can then be used to
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by jpfed 9y ago
A thread in the physics education I received was "we used to have (old model), but then that experiment caused us to think (new model)" ad infinitum. Maybe there's just a problem with my own brain, but I experience significan
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by jpfed 9y ago
Leave Britney alone! Or at least her Instagram account. https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/russian-hackers-tur...
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by jpfed 9y ago
(It looks like this article is substantially derived from https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2002-04/my-mother-sci... )
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by jpfed 9y ago
I think this is going to lead to a lot of unforeseen problems. Brick structures will be much more vulnerable once literally anyone can take one of these and become twice as large. And once you've had a mushroom, if you get the right k
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by jpfed 9y ago
To deal with that, they'd have to do some spherical drive/ trackball sort of thing.
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by jpfed 9y ago
Laissez-faire capitalists are a dime a dozen in technology. You cannot swing a cat without hitting a libertarian (so, you know, put the cat down). To the extent that a conservative is claiming to be discriminated against, they're not s
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by jpfed 9y ago
The next step is obviously to take the most-disliked technologies and combine them into something so bad it's good, like "the most unwanted music" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 ).
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by jpfed 9y ago
Yes, it really is more secure than exact re-use. Attackers that just try the exact same password on multiple sites on first discovery will be thwarted by algorithmically derived passwords. I'm not ruling out that there will be attacker
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by jpfed 9y ago
This threat only holds for dedicated attackers. 1. They have to have multiple passwords to have a chance to derive the algorithm. 2. They also need to somehow think it's worth their time to reverse the algorithm instead of just going w
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by jpfed 9y ago
As a native English speaker, I agree that "unknown" is better than "none".
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>Remember that "cancer" is just normal cells that grow out of control. So if your normal cells are functioning normally then cancer cells will also function normally. But that only holds if growing out of control has no impact
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by jpfed 9y ago
But the election wasn't just about Clinton and Trump; it was just as much about Merrick Garland and Neil Gorsuch. Even if you still don't see a difference between the former two, surely you would recognize a difference between th
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by jpfed 9y ago
For me, it's just another way of thinking about change. Even when a value changes over time, it is possible to capture or model an immutable truth about it: the relationships that determine each new value.
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by jpfed 9y ago
I don't understand how your first cite says what you say it says. Neither the word "efficiency" nor the notion of [voter] efficiency appear in your link. Do you just mean that SCOTUS has in some cases striven for mathematica
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by jpfed 9y ago
There's almost always an efficiency gap. To judge whether an efficiency gap is disqualifying for a map depends on what other maps might be drawn- is this efficiency gap unusual given how the voters are distributed?
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by jpfed 9y ago
But why consider geometry itself to be important? Isn't geometry a mere proxy for something else that's desirable? My own suspicion is this: that districting is an act of partitioning the social graph. The weights of this graph ar
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by jpfed 9y ago
I think I know what you mean. The factors are drawn as a tree, and the way things are drawn now, it's possible for the line segment drawn for a child to go partway along the line segment drawn for its parent. Do you mean that I should

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